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by sabat 16y ago
"translating" Python examples into relatively idiomatic Ruby shouldn't too much of a problem if you really want to go down that path Really good point -- thanks for that.
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by sabat 16y ago
I was just wondering if anyone's done something like this for Ruby.
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by sabat 16y ago
It sure is. Jason Roberts of the TechZing podcast coined it: http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...
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by sabat 16y ago
Agree that the "11 Harsh Realities" post was somewhat overstated -- it was meant as a warning that startups are hard and demand serious work and optimism. But that shouldn't stop anyone. In fact, all the "harsh realities" could be considere
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by sabat 16y ago
Just because you read a book, and wrote a few blog posts doesn't make you an expert! Or it does make you an expert, but "expert" doesn't mean what we think it means. ;-)
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by sabat 16y ago
You were an actual fraud? By what definition? [edit: I wonder if you were really a fraud, or are just feeling down on yourself.]
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by sabat 16y ago
Naw, I've been in this thing professionally since the early '90s and every single day I have to convince myself that I'm not a fraud. We're all frauds.
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by sabat 16y ago
The hard part for Yelp: getting computers (or, similar to OpenTable, specialized appliance PCs) into the restaurants. That's why OpenTable took so long to take off -- they had to convince a critical mass of restaurants that it was worth it.
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by sabat 16y ago
Exactly. By using iptables on his host, as he describes, he is in effect firewalling it. But if you have 25 hosts you probably would want a firewall in front of them.
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by sabat 16y ago
IBM ain't what it used to be, that's for sure. Still in the game, certainly. Similarly, I don't expect Salesforce to die out any time soon, but the market share it commands may diminish if seriously better competitors emerge.
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by sabat 16y ago
Regarding the newish talent drain: higher salary and equity packages for engineers is not a threat to VC/angel-funded startups -- not yet. Salaries have been depressed for the past 2+ years, and a little catch-up is in order. Obviously that
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by sabat 16y ago
With the name that Salesforce has, their only issue would be convincing SMBs that they need a CRM -- not that Salesforce would be the one to pick. Maybe they still need to convince those SMBs of their need for CRMs. Maybe.
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by sabat 16y ago
I've never heard of anyone who thinks that Salesforce is a well-designed, easy-to-use app. Disclaimer: I haven't used it much, so this is just based on other people's opinions. Disruption: sure. Bound to happen. Someone is going 37signals t
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by sabat 16y ago
I know a couple of people who work there. Salesforce is bound to be modeled after Oracle, from whence founder Benioff came. (It's also where he made all his connections, benefitting from a lifelong friendship with Larry Ellison.) IIRC Oracl
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by sabat 16y ago
Many entrepreneurs who spend time here on HN have written extensively about being resourceful. #1 in my book, currently, would be patio11 (Patrick McKenzie) -- read everything he has ever posted and blogged. Seriously. Other people worth re
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by sabat 16y ago
I read that critique and think it has a lot more to do with personal dislike than anything else. Tim's schtick is phony? It's bombastic, sure. But phony?
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by sabat 16y ago
For me, the silly covers are only part of the problem. The rest: (editor) Chris Anderson's hyperbole. The web is dead! Everything will be free!
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by sabat 16y ago
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly ...
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by sabat 16y ago
Definitely been seeing a serious uptick in hiring around here -- and I've been on and off the job market for over a year. Things were looking up last Spring (around the time I picked up my current consulting gig) but things are noticeably b
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by sabat 16y ago
Fantastic list -- thanks for posting that (stackoverflow link).
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by sabat 16y ago
Summary would seem to be: innovation is good and all, but the US' trade balance is really out of whack, and you can't make up for that by just innovating. Makes some sense. Let's not take this as a discounting of innovation, however. It's n
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by sabat 16y ago
Given that this story is also on the current HN front page, I doubt the TSA is going to try and enforce a WiFi ban anytime soon: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/08/google-gifts-free-air...
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by sabat 16y ago
"Luck surface area" -- ingenious.
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by sabat 16y ago
Nothing official, but it would seem like something useful, like the new Books site.
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by sabat 16y ago
I was running out of resources on Heroku This is something I'm concerned about. I like a whole lot about Heroku, but the upgrade path is strange and seems illogical. Could use some insight here. The jump from 1 dyno (free) to 2 dynos ($36
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by sabat 16y ago
Seriously, we have to ask this right now, when we might be starting to emerge from the worst depression since the Great Depression? Bubble? What bubble? Entrepreneurial activity != a bubble. It means capitalism is at work.
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by sabat 16y ago
Clever.
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by sabat 16y ago
The less optimistic part of me agrees with you but hopes that in the future this will somehow turn out to be wrong.
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by sabat 16y ago
It's frustrating, isn't it? S4 sounds like it does something cool and useful, and I'd like to know what this is, just for reference at least. But I don't have time to go and figure it out on my own; I'm too busy trying to stay productive.
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by sabat 16y ago
Then some entity somewhere will decide to get off its ass and offer internet service the way PG&E supplies power -- with no conditions. If you're an ISP then you have no business competing with other internet services; it's time to spin

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